Cyber Security Platform

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The cybersecurity platform is staffed by more than 100 experts in protecting integrated circuits, mobile electronic devices, such as smartphones, and embedded systems and their software from threats. The platform is used to identify product vulnerabilities and come up with innovative ways to protect both hardware and software from cyber-attacks.

Published on 25 February 2017

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Protecting hardware & software from threats

The cybersecurity platform is staffed by more than 100 experts in protecting integrated circuits, mobile electronic devices, such as smartphones, and embedded systems and their software from threats. The platform is used to identify product vulnerabilities and come up with innovative ways to protect both hardware and software from cyber-attacks.

The platform uses some of the most advanced tools available (source-code analysis software like Frama-C, hardware platform simulators, test benches capable of replicating physical attacks against electronic components, fault generators, and emission spectrum analyzers) to pinpoint vulnerabilities. It is home to one of France’s three official commercial hardware security evaluation centers (ITSEF).

The techniques employed to ensure hardware and software security are based on innovative technologies like secure communications platforms for sensor networks, secure hardware and software cryptography implementation, crypto calculation for direct application processing of encrypted data and much more.

No other cybersecurity center in Europe is as large or covers as broad a scope as the cybersecurity platform. Its partners include some 30 manufacturing and other industrial companies as well as research organizations in Europe and the United States.

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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.